ratatui-hypertile 0.4.2: palette controls, stable tab IDs, core without Crossterm, 10.000 downloads and a reality check on AI

[u/JoniDaButcher]

Hello, Rustaceans!

I released 0.4.2 yesterday and wanted to introduce people who might be interested in the project, talk about the changes in the release, where I plan on taking the project in the future and a quick rant on the AI policy the project will have going forward.

First of all, I want to thank @ Seuros, TheAiteb and tom-lubenow for their contributions in the past few weeks and months. This is my first ever open source project and I'm glad that people didn't only find a use case for it but also actively helped improve it!

What has changed in v0.4.2:

• More control over the palette. Choose which plugin types it offers, open and render it from your app, and receive the selection to handle yourself. Useful when choosing a plugin should focus an existing pane or follow your own application logic.
• Stable tab IDs. Each workspace tab now has a TabId, with helpers to check which tabs remain open. This makes tracking state such as notifications per tab easier.
• The core no longer pulls in Crossterm. It now builds for Wasm targets, including wasm32-wasip2. Thanks again to Tom for this.
• Fixed a bug causing keyboard actions to fire twice on Windows (already fixed in 0.4.1 but I didn't make a post about it)

AI Policy

It's undeniable that LLMs today are not the ones from last year, they are more than capable of producing quality code, finding bugs and improving performance. Hypertile DOES have AI generated code in it, even though it started out as my little learning project. That being said, as of yesterday, the project will adopt ripgreps AI policy as well as an AGENT.md linking to .rules, this one being adopted from Zed. While I do not have any plans on trying to create an artisan or sophisticated guide for LLMs, I am not delusional enough to believe that people contributing won't use LLMs to generate their code. I have also adopted policies from the Linux Kernel regarding the use of coding assistants of any kind.

TLDR: You can use AI for code, you must disclose what you used, you may not communicate in PRs, Issues or anywhere using LLMs. You own the code you publish regarding of how it was created.

FAQ:

I did not think I'd actually need a FAQ question but one thing that constantly keeps popping up is:

Why not just use tmux or ZelliJ?

They are not mutually exclusive! The point of Hypertile is allowing people to write their CLI tools in a way that allows them to be modified at runtime instead of the look and feel being baked in at compile time as most TUIs do. You can use your ratatui-hypertile app in ZelliJ just fine.

As always, any and all feedback is welcome! :)

Repository - Core crate - Extras crate

[u/ArtemTsitronov]

Nice project, you can post about it here: r/ratatuirust